Two years after their airline shut down, most of the former Eastern Airlines pilots are still without jobs.

Increasingly, they are blaming the union for not enforcing its own policies. The union, they say, has failed to persuade the airlines that bought Eastern`s assets to provide jobs for pilots -- in violation of union rules and contractual obligations.

Charges of blacklisting and political gamesmanship have consumed the debate over how to solve the problems left by Eastern`s demise.

The pilots estimate that as many as 2,000 of them are still jobless, out of 3,600 left without work when Eastern collapsed.

``There`s no question that we have been screwed over,`` said Dick Nellis, who is leading a group of Eastern pilots called Pro-Justicia. The pilots in his group are union loyalists who never returned to work after they went on strike in March 1989. ``We`re a political pariah.``

Pro-Justicia last week retained a Washington, D.C., law firm to investigate claims against the Air Line Pilots Association. It is the second group of Eastern pilots contemplating suing the union.

Another group of about 500 pilots who went back to work at Eastern at the urging of union leaders in the fall of 1989 filed a lawsuit against the union in October. The lawsuit claims the union blacklisted the pilots who crossed the picket line.

The suit also blames the union for failing to enforce a policy called fragmentation, which requires that pilots be transferred with assets that move from one airline to another.

The widely misunderstood policy is best applied when an airline takes a whole package of assets, such as the transfer of Pan American World Airways entire Latin American operation to United Airlines, union officials said.

The Eastern pilots also complain that Delta has taken numerous Eastern assets but few pilots. And they blame Delta`s union leadership.

But Bob Shelton, the chairman of the Delta unit of the union, said he has been diligently working with Delta to get Eastern pilots jobs, but has had little success. ``We`ve been trying, but the corporation feels no obligation to bring Eastern pilots in.``

The pilots who went back to work before Eastern closed think they are not getting jobs because of the blacklist. But those who stayed on strike are having no better luck.

``The people who stayed out aren`t hireable because they`re considered militant,`` said Gary Greksa, a former spokesman for striking workers who crossed the picket line in August 1989. ``They`re getting the shaft just like we are.``